Pretty much sums up the last 30 years of governance in the UK.
No money for projects outside of London
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You are stopping out loads of context to focus on a relatively modern container port in suffolk. The port doesn’t really see trade traffic from Europe, it’s primarily for massive ships that come from the far east. They go there because of the proximity to other ports in Northern Europe.
The irony being the East of England is the 3rd richest region in the U.K. behind London and the south east and is a net contributor.
What i actually said the south east benefits from being both close to London AND Europe.
You are missing the hundreds of years of legacy where the south east was literally the road to Europe which everything traveled down. The south east has a lot of ‘old money’ associated with it.
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Its frustrating. I bet if Corruption and waste was elimated our current tax burden would go a long long way further.
Government policy has favoured London for hundreds of years, of course there is a divide.
I think things are just worse at the moment because the entire house of cards is coming crashing down. The country feels effectively broken, financially and socially. Hard Tory policy, seemingly now being continued by Labour has destroyed public services and really there is very little money to rescue them, nor is there any political will it seems.
So there is just generally significantly less money for anything all round, and of course government led, London-first policy shown to be spending money mostly in London seems just exacerbated at a time when most councils seem at risk of going bust.
Until a grown up starts seriously talking about re-entering some agreement with the EU it won’t change. It’s that simple. If I can find it I’ll post the link to the table of trade deal effects I saw the other day. The collective whit of uk government has negotiated something like 3% of gdp’s worth of trade deals since that idiotic decision, and brexit sits at a roughly -100Bn/year or 5-10% gdp cost.
Until people wake up, realise the US don’t care about us, and that we need to negotiate with our neighbours, things won’t improve.
Maybe a future generation will be lucky enough to go, cap in hand and effectively broken and bankrupt, again, to the EU and beg to be let back in.
I think things are just worse at the moment because the entire house of cards is coming crashing down. The country feels effectively broken, financially and socially. Hard Tory policy, seemingly now being continued by Labour has destroyed public services and really there is very little money to rescue them, nor is there any political will it seems.
So there is just generally significantly less money for anything all round, and of course government led, London-first policy shown to be spending money mostly in London seems just exacerbated at a time when most councils seem at risk of going bust.
Until a grown up starts seriously talking about re-entering some agreement with the EU it won’t change. It’s that simple. If I can find it I’ll post the link to the table of trade deal effects I saw the other day. The collective whit of uk government has negotiated something like 3% of gdp’s worth of trade deals since that idiotic decision, and brexit sits at a roughly -100Bn/year or 5-10% gdp cost.
Until people wake up, realise the US don’t care about us, and that we need to negotiate with our neighbours, things won’t improve.
Maybe a future generation will be lucky enough to go, cap in hand and effectively broken and bankrupt, again, to the EU and beg to be let back in.
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The South East is rich because the Tudors centralised power and that's continued to this day.
Must admit I don't know where the Ash station is. You're fairly central though so guess it's only a short walk for you?
They should add a runway at all three.
I should add to that: the traffic at all three is near maximum so all would benefit from additional runways.
In the middle of the town on the site of the original station which closed in the Beeching cuts. It has a huge car park to easy to park and jump on a train to Newcastle Central for connections. Not in the Jaag tho.
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Londoner here.
Never understood why in all this time and with the amount of tech available (telecom conference etc) why consecutive governments just really messed up developing the country and it's infrastructure in any meaningful way.
London is a dumpster fire, and I live in a 'nice' part.
Plenty of Northern mates loving in London, and they hate the place, but for work they need to be here.
Never understood why in all this time and with the amount of tech available (telecom conference etc) why consecutive governments just really messed up developing the country and it's infrastructure in any meaningful way.
London is a dumpster fire, and I live in a 'nice' part.
Plenty of Northern mates loving in London, and they hate the place, but for work they need to be here.
Fail to see how the trickle down economics of that one will work as it never has before.
Short term thinking that will create even bigger wealth divides and more welfare etc.
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I don't understand it, either.
There seems to be a total aversion to investing anywhere other than London. Even when they talk about the divide, their best effort is a railway line to get more people to London. Every sentence ends in London.
Why the California Cross junction has divided Finchampstead
California Cross roundabout has been the subject of controversy since its redesign in 2024.
www.bbc.co.uk
UK's 'most bizarre' road markings to be removed in weeks
The work, which includes removing controversial wavy lines, follows feedback and is to take 12 weeks.
www.bbc.co.uk
Prime example. Southern councils have money to spaff up the wall on things like this. Curiously they're not in compliance with national highways standards so not sure how they got away with them in the first place.
Aide from the markings, the layout look far better than the original. Double mini roundabouts are garbage for both traffic flow and safety, particularly when cyclists and pedestrians get involved.
The markings are not worth getting rilled up over, the Highway Code is pretty clear you should give way to people crossing regardless of whether there is a zebra crossing or not in that scenario.
The markings are not worth getting rilled up over, the Highway Code is pretty clear you should give way to people crossing regardless of whether there is a zebra crossing or not in that scenario.
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Ignoring the obvious yet again...
Were these things free? No. The Somerset markings alone were 1.5M to do then remove. A complete was of money when apparently councils are completely cash strapped. Not in the south it seems as they can fire 1.5M at crap like that.
Suggest you read the article. Those things were done with the line markings. The ones they're removing.
This. No matter how much money these huge corporations make, they always want that sweet sweet Gov handout. Makes you sick really but it’s the way the world works, especially the West and no country can complete like the US, it’s truly staggering how much they subsidise.
Good riddance, and as above I don’t believe they wanted to do it anyway.